Political Career
He was appointed as a member of Council of Islamic Revolution by Ruhollah Khomeini in 12 February 1979. Mehdi Bazargan, then Prime Minister of Iran, named Sahabi as Head of National Budget Center. He was elected as a member of Parliament in election of 1980.
In later years Sahabi was managing editor of the journal Iran-e Farda (The Iran of Tomorrow), which was banned by the Islamic government, and participated in the 2000 'Iran After the Elections' Conference held in Berlin, for which he was sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment. He was well known as the leader of the Iran's Nationalist-Religious political alliance.
Sahabi spent a total of 15 years in prison both before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
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